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| − | [[image: | + | [[image:Burning_chrome.jpg|right|400px|link=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Chrome]] You might be curious about the name of this website. Chrome is the shortening of "burning chrome" the nickname I use, sometimes preceded by "matt", on instant message softwares or on gmail, and it dates back to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Chrome Burning Chrome] a collection of short cyberpunk stories written by [http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com William Gibson]. |
Burning Chrome gave the real kick to the cyberpunk literary movement and it was the first book were the 'cyberspace' term was used. Before writing it Gibson has wrote [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer Neuromancer] and it turns out it is somehow related to the reason why I started my research in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. At some point my research moved naturally to Pattern Recognition and, guess what?, William Gibson more recently wrote the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_Recognition_(novel) Pattern Recognition] novel! | Burning Chrome gave the real kick to the cyberpunk literary movement and it was the first book were the 'cyberspace' term was used. Before writing it Gibson has wrote [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer Neuromancer] and it turns out it is somehow related to the reason why I started my research in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. At some point my research moved naturally to Pattern Recognition and, guess what?, William Gibson more recently wrote the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_Recognition_(novel) Pattern Recognition] novel! | ||
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Burning Chrome gave the real kick to the cyberpunk literary movement and it was the first book were the 'cyberspace' term was used. Before writing it Gibson has wrote Neuromancer and it turns out it is somehow related to the reason why I started my research in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. At some point my research moved naturally to Pattern Recognition and, guess what?, William Gibson more recently wrote the Pattern Recognition novel!
